High-level RW isn't safe (the very hottest stuff you can walk up to,
but you don't walk away). That's why it needs to be isolated.
I don't believe the government went into nuclear development with the
understanding of how politically impossible it would be in this
country to handle the stuff rationally.
Yes, of course, there's an industry, but there are also millions of
people who are getting their electricity from nuclear power plants.
The whole energy industry is dirty and destructive of the environment.
Coal plants not only cause global warming, but they kill the miners
who extract the coal and destroy the environment where the coal is
extracted (lots of people in West Virginia are upset that their
mountains are being de-topped and the slag pushed into streams. Plus,
coal being an element extracted from the earth releases radioactivity
when it is burned. The average coal plant releases more radioactivity
to the general public than a nuclear plant does. No happy answers
exist.
That's why I think the ocean trench solution should be studied by an
I appreciate looking at disposal besides military use but injecting the
planet anywhere is a global decision, whether in the ocean or earth's
mantle. Keep responsibility with profit for a sane economy.
international group of scientists. Look, we have the stuff, and
pretending it will just go away isn't going to help much.
Marie
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